of crimes thanks to. the soldiers who shot. forensics between bits and. believe. anything. because justice is about. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . this is the news coming up in the program the year of the pig begins lunar new year across parts of the world with prayers feasting and gifts. in the morning it's talk only kept nine lives one south korean.

and the mongolian band that's quarter of global hits. rock. welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us on this the first day of the lunar new year across of all people offering prayers like this in temples and sitting down with family members for that all important meal it's the yard of the pig this time around and people are hoping it brings with it a you know what celebrating. praying for good fortune in the new year a tradition for chinese communities around the world and. here at beijing's baju

temple thousands flock to welcome the year of the pig in chinese culture the zodiac sign is a symbol of luck and wealth hopes that were reflected in the new year's wishes. i wish for good health for my family and success in my career and of course i hope for perspective pretty conventional. so for this year i'll be taking my college entrance exam so i hope to get. another custom to bring good luck temple go is trying to strike a bell hanging under a bridge it's a lucrative time for the monastery stuff needed shovels to clear the coins and a motorbike helmet for protection. but for the chinese and a growing international audience this has become a major part of the celebrations the spring festival gala.

it's now the country's most watched t.v. show with an estimated billion viewers. to keep the millennia old hope that's pitted with young celebrities like chinese boy band t. of boys. but the showstopper is a highly choreographed routines like this by twenty thousand shalimar performers. and for most people celebrating the lunar new year it's about spending time with friends and family groups. and it's about food lots of it. hundreds of millions of people have traveled to be home for the feasts and festivities they're hoping that this year of the pig will be a lucky one. and the end of the pig of course follows the yard of the dog for many owners of real dogs the attachment to their pet is still strong to let go of even off their death in south korea though one clinic is fulfilling the dreams of

pet owners who want to keep their best around forever with money it seems that you can just buy anything. you can order three a six pack or even ten of your departed pet. in south korea at least death is no longer the end. for bereaved owners like kevin kenji the copy canines are almost as good as the original he's picking his puppy is just a few weeks old. he says it's his old dog reborn he's fifteen years old you see the mouse i think is the same dog in my mind i feel like it's the same. one more success for soul so i am biotech research foundation by engineers here have cloned more than a thousand dogs for customers all over the world. a lot of people know that it might not be the exact same dog some people think it's the puppies that the orders of the dog never had or so other people think that it's. time to cook when south

korean scientists created the world's first cloned dog in two thousand and five today the procedure has become routine and very lucrative the clinic charges eighty eight thousand euros per puppy implanted in born by a surrogate mother it's not just private pet owners showing interest the security industry sees a way to replicate their best sniffer dogs with the help of cloning they can fast track their breeding and training process. do you understand this young age dogs have an average thirty percent success rate but this cloned dog has an eighty percent success rate and critics questioned at the cloning which they say turns living beings into reproductive machines for wealthy owners it's a small price to bring their beloved pets back to life. for more we're joined by dr satcher had from the university of edinburgh she's an expert on genetics cloning and ethical considerations but to start good to see you now

a lot of money is being made by these pet owners to receive a norn of the animal that has died but is this normal animal similar in every way to the animal that's died. there are a lot of popular misconceptions around cloning so people who speak of this is making a copy which gets the impression that clone will be identical to a lot the same as the original but in fact chloramine just creates a being that shares the same things as another but that doesn't mean they're the same just us that intertwines for example they're not the same person but actually clones are probably even less like the original than trains because the environment so the clintons might look a little similar and it would be the same greet it might have different market rules about it certainly wouldn't have the same memories of the same personality so it wouldn't be the same animal so in a sense do dog owners nor this before they're going in for cloning or is it just a physical look that they think they're going in for. well if you read the comments

that owners have made about why the dogs cloying it's clear they don't just want an animal of the same street you hear equal talking about preserving the essence of their eggs or keeping some part of the law and i know that they don't sell at the same soul as the old kits and i don't think perhaps they understand what the procedure is going to do so that's where we are supposed to turn the question does arise if animals can be chloroformed other animals have been cloned in the past the question would be are humans. far behind. just because we can do it in dogs doesn't mean we could or should do it in humans and steps for a number of reasons the first is purely scientific so although the theory of cloning dogs and cloned humans might be the same the practice is very different and consider that dolly the sheep the first memory clone was produced more than twenty

years ago because the processes of reproduction and development is so different between sheep and dogs and humans just because we can do it in one doesn't mean we can do it in the other and other example actually of the controversy i've yet so we've been doing i v f in vitro fertilization for more than forty years and humans but it's only actually in the last few years that satirises been able to do it in dogs so there are scientific reasons why don't cling as it means human cloning is on the way but the second way is that there are ethical and regulatory reasons why we shouldn't be seen hume anytime soon so it's an experimental procedure even in dogs where the slag and stuff which refine it it's still not perfect it's one hundred times more so in humans it'd be unsafe both to the mother and to the children we know that clones develop many egg your morality or any do not survive even to birth a large number of embryos are acquired a large number of eggs would be required which would mean hormone treatment and health risks to be a doing as so just to be as reasons

a lot of practical reasons even without considering any other a weekly shoot it wouldn't be justifiable to the board is sitting right here in africa or very for the time being dr sarah gardner esther of edinburgh thank you very much speaking to us. wrapped up our whole saga of mongolian rock band of the hall have caused the global censorship of their brand of the. rock and traditional mongolian full after posting his track you for you were you were on you tube last year it's racked up eight point four million views and counting. the who is the driving force behind a new music started mongolia what they're calling new rock it incorporates

traditional instruments like mongolian fiddles and guitars and also mongolian throat singing an ancient technique that produces two notes at the same time. and they're very happy to welcome the who's manager to god knob or he's got three based in chicago and he's also the lead singer has a brother miss and i'm going to so good to see you i just said the outset we all love this band and we are completely taken in by the sound that the band is producing can you tell us a bit about that what else makes this rock music so mongolian well both thank you so much and. to be here today.

you know. based on. mongolian sure additional music brought seniors and money. and i'm sure so. i think what makes our very unique. plane our traditional music instrument. in a rock manner so that makes that very unique but how did you are did you come across this how did you come across this formula what is it that you're trying to can with is it just the music or is there something more. it's all tied with however you do sir. and you started. you started quite likely nine years ago he started and you start researching old patient.

boat. all those things. and we were. after seven years we come up with this army and it's not it's not all about music it's all about. culture and the message you know. it's it's just it's not just the music. if i could just ask you towards the end by your first redirect up eight million views on you tube mongolia as opposed to mission of twenty million where are your fans. our fans are all around the world and us now i can't you know it's like got hundred sixty concious ome around the world. and. our friends are all wonderful and you've made a few with us here in berlin thank you so much going on board the band manager for the whole thank you very much big dross.

marline a bit of a dot com. don't forget to check out that other news on facebook as well. relive it all with more of the unique saga of. this year that started about. a. new way by. way. way. to. be our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a plan. so nothing is just the children who have always been the boy and those that will follow are part of a new process. they could be the future. granting

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a boon to vietnam's incidents villages. and german chancellor angela merkel is a stressing the need for a multilateral approach to global trade but at the end of a visit to japan. welcome to your business asia i want to germans and berlin german chancellor angela merkel is wrapping up a two day visit to japan on tuesday she met with university students stressing again the need for a new multilateral approach to global trade talking at scale university in america address the ongoing trade disputes between the u.s. and china saying that germany and japan would be the first to feel the fallout if chinese consumption collapses due to the trade tensions. now asked about business relations with china and ongoing concerns about data protection merkel also spoke about the role chinese technology giants your way could play in the german

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